Quotes of Veracity - somelinesforyou

“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ What is, is; and what ain't, ain't. ”

- Joseph E. Granville

“ Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ In wine, there's truth. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth. ”

- Charles Ruff

“ Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other. ”

- Isaac Stern

“ Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.". ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ See it like it is! ”

- Herb Cohen

“ Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. ”

- Albert Camus

“ To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted. ”

- Voltaire

“ Truth is reality. ”

- Mary Caroline Richards

“ This is my truth, tell me yours. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Great truths are portions of the soul of man. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. ”

- Anais Nin

“ At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths — your abilities and your failings. ”

- Gerard Depardieu

“ The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ”

- Frederick The Great

“ The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ”

- Anais Nin

“ There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths — it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. ”

- Unknown

“ To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ A half-truth is usually less than half of that. ”

- Bern Williams
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